S3 E41 The Best of Times

Episode discussion topics <ul><li>Coming off the heals of two republics we want to paint the picture of what an egalitarian future may look like.</li> <li>How does self-rule translate into the economy? How do we leave behind the concrete plantation that was built by the owners of the system?</li> <li>Competition is good and centralization is problematic without proper checks and balances in place. We use adversarial (one side versus another) setups to do things like finding the truth through a court case or like supply and demand in economics or the checks and balances among our co-equal branches of government. </li> <li>Automation is coming for all repeatable tasks and will eliminate related jobs. This includes many roles from middle management to delivery drivers. </li> <li>The ability to be free is granted to all through the ability to participate in the economy in the way that they choose. <ul><li>Imagine if healthcare and schooling were rights, not expenses or debt, since a healthy republic needs citizens who understand how to work it.</li> <li>Imagine having the right to equal pay for equal work for egalitarian sake.</li> <li>Imagine the astounding possibilities if all our brains were free to create at will rather than only a selected few.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul><li>Calls to Action: <ul><li>Arm yourself against the fear that is driven by false notions of socialism or communism or any ism because those are just ideas, not systems that we can implement. </li> <li>China and Russia are more capitalist or even fascist in their current implementations of governance and economy. </li> <li>The one Marxist thing they retain is central planning committees that are deeply seated in politics. </li> <li>The U.S. uses a set of distributed economic planning committees consisting of public and private institutions, the Federal Government, and the boards of companies across industries.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;">Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raym